To confirm that the participants knew the individual characters used the kanji compounds test, a kanji pretest was prepared.
Beliefs about language learning and their relationship to the ability to integrate information from word parts and context in interpreting novel kanji words.
Further analysis, however, indicated that nearly half the students did not combine the two sources and over-relied on either kanji or contextual clues.
Individual differences in the integration of information from context and word parts in interpreting unknown kanji words.
In other words, kanji users' gain from the two sources combined was no better than their gain from the kanji clues alone.
That is, context users showed no substantial difference in their scores between the context only condition and the both kanji and context condition.
Their results showed that phonological information was activated automatically and could not be suppressed even in kanji reading.
Integration of information from context and word elements in interpreting novel kanji compounds.
